247 p. : 24 cm

"The essays in this volume represent a selection of the papers delivered at the 'Regionalism and Nineteenth-Century Ireland' conference held at the Queen's University of Belfast in April 1997, under the auspices of the Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland"--Pref

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction / Leon Litvack and Glenn Hooper -- Exhibiting Ireland, 1851-3 : colonial mimicry in London, Cork and Dublin / Leon Litvack -- Charting culture in the Dublin University magazine / Elizabeth Tilley -- Imagining Ireland in the Great Exhibition of 1853 / A. Jamie Saris -- Region vs. nation : nineteenth-century 'Germany' as a mirror for Irish regional/national politics / Eva Maria Stöter -- The desire of the West : the Aran Islands and Irish identity in Grania / Jacqueline Belanger -- The Papish minister : Shan Bullock, John Haughton Steele, and the literary portrayal of the nineteenth-century clergyman / Patrick Maume -- Edgeworth, Wilde, and Joyce : reading Irish regionalism through 'the cracked lookingglass' of a servant's art / Brian Caraher -- Edgeworth and Wordsworth : plain unvarnished tales / Frances Botkin -- The regional administration of a central legal policy / Richard McMahon -- The politics of landscape and region in nineteenth-century poetry / Seán Ryder -- Writing Ireland : reading England / Kevine Whelan -- 'Ireland and the hour' : paternalism and nationality in Standish James O'Grady's Toryism and the Tory democracy / Michael McAteer -- The pursuit of signs : searching for Ireland after the union / Glenn Hooper

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